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ArticleThe Plant cell2020

Chloroplast Chaperonin-Mediated Targeting of a Thylakoid Membrane Protein.

Laura Klasek, Kentaro Inoue, Steven M Theg

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Article in The Plant cell, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  12. Hold Me, Fold Me...or Not!The Plant cell · 2020
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laura KlasekDepartment of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616.ORCID 0000-0002-5432-1809
Kentaro InoueDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616.ORCID 0000-0001-5604-2486
Steven M ThegDepartment of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616 smtheg@ucdavis.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6397-0413
University of California, Davis · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Posttranslational protein targeting requires chaperone assistance to direct insertion-competent proteins to integration pathways. Chloroplasts integrate nearly all thylakoid transmembrane proteins posttranslationally, but mechanisms in the stroma that assist their insertion remain largely undefined. Here, we investigated how the chloroplast chaperonin (Cpn60) facilitated the thylakoid integration of Plastidic type I signal peptidase 1 (Plsp1) using in vitro targeting assays. Cpn60 bound Plsp1 in the stroma. In isolated chloroplasts, the membrane integration of imported Plsp1 correlated with its dissociation from Cpn60. When the Plsp1 residues that interacted with Cpn60 were removed, Plsp1 did not integrate into the membrane. These results suggested Cpn60 was an intermediate in thylakoid targeting of Plsp1. In isolated thylakoids, the integration of Plsp1 decreased when Cpn60 was present in excess of cpSecA1, the stromal motor of the cpSec1 translocon that inserts unfolded Plsp1 into the thylakoid. An excess of cpSecA1 favored integration. Introducing Cpn60's obligate substrate RbcL displaced Cpn60-bound Plsp1; then, the released Plsp1 exhibited increased accessibility to cpSec1. These in vitro targeting experiments support a model in which Cpn60 captures and then releases insertion-competent Plsp1, whereas cpSecA1 recognizes free Plsp1 for integration. Thylakoid transmembrane proteins in the stroma can interact with Cpn60 to shield themselves from the aqueous environment.

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ChaperoninsChloroplastsMembrane ProteinsMolecular ChaperonesPisum sativumPlant StomataProtein TransportSerine EndopeptidasesThylakoid Membrane ProteinsThylakoidsChaperoninsMembrane ProteinsMolecular ChaperonesSerine EndopeptidasesThylakoid Membrane Proteinstype I signal peptidase

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PMID33093145
PMCPMC7721336
OpenAlexW3094471368

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